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FOYLE (1915)

Service dates: 1918-1934

Official number: 139093

Shipping lines: MERCANTILE STEAMSHIP COMPANY; HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

29.06.1915
Launched.
10.1915
Completed as Foyle for the Mercantile Steam Ship Company Ltd, London.
1917
E Hain & Son appointed managers.
07.02.1918
Takeover of the Mercantile Steam Ship Company Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
08.11.1923
Transferred to the Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
1934
Sold for £9,750 to Rethymnis & Kulukundis (Hellas) Ltd, and D E and M Lemos (Rethymnis & Kulukundis Ltd, managers), Greece, and renamed Delphoi.
1936
Owners restyled D P, M G & E P Lemos and Rethymnis & Kulukundis (Hellas) Ltd.
09.11.1938
Stranded at Chekka, Syriam, refloated, sold to Italian shipbreakers, repaired, and returned to service.
09.1943
Scuttled at Bari.
1947
Salved, repaired, and returned to service.
1958
Owners restyled as Febo Amedeo Bertorello fu Giacomo.
1960
Sold to British Iron & Steel Corporation, allocated to P&W McLellan Ltd, demolished.


Ship technical details (PDF)